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Saturday, September 8, Central Park's Heckscher Playground, New York Media Softball League playoffs, noon. BusinessWeek vs. DC Comics and (ha!) High Times vs. Wall St. Journal, followed by champ match. Be there or have a life.
Circ may be down 17 percent (uh, controlled! right!), and they still have Joel Stein writing for them, but at least there's one thing going right at Time: The softball team beat the New York Times last night, 20 to 11, to win the championship in their cute little media softball league. The trophy will be on display on the 22nd and 24th floors today, so if you're in the building, head over and pay tribute, okay?
Current score of the ongoing Radar vs. New York Observer softball game: 7-2, Observer kicking butt. Also the Observer's media reporter Michael Calderone just took a ball to the eye. (Just one? Ha! Kidding! Sorry!) UPDATE: Radar sources report a "bench-clearing brawl" gave Calderone the black eye. Whatevs! We report, you decide.
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Penny-Pinching 'Times' Plays Hardball, Employees Play Nothing
Bad news for the boys and girls of summer at The Paper of Record:The New York Times is cancelling the softball team. An H.R. representative told me that the company is no longer paying for employee activities like this, if we want to continue we'll have to pay for it ourselves. The registration fee is $2000, and they're not willing to part with it.This is a shame, especially when you consider the 30% growth in online revenues they predicted. (Oooh, we can't wait until next week's annual report, currently in edits!) Now we'll never see John Noble Wilford's gyroball!
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Media Softball: Satire Always Wins
Last Thursday, the staffs from the Observer and New York magazine took to the softball field; it would be no small exaggeration to say the prettily pink players from the Observer had their witty asses handed to them on the proverbial plate (we imagine that if New York were to actually use a plate for this purpose, it'd be an elegant piece of dinnerware from Kate Spade's Gramercy Park line as recommended by Strategist). The score was 15-10 and, as the Observer write-up indicates, the crushing loss stemmed from a shitty first inning that had the NYO down 9-0: More »
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Remainders: Too Hot to Fuck
• The people have spoken. [Animal]• Are Madonna and Guy Ritchie headed towards a divorce? And is floating such rumors part of new Observer owner Jared Kushner's hip-and-cool mandate? [Daily Transom]
• Speaking of J-Kush, homeboy was definitely not a team player last night when he missed the Observer's very first softball game, which they won over the alpha-males at Trader Monthly. Too bad three interns died from dehydration before the fifth inning. [Daily Transom]
• Today's Post, summed up in a single sentence: "Mel, Mel, Mel, do you mind if we call you sugar lips, Mel?" [NYP]
• We suspect former Sun columnist Pranay Gupte lives for little more than a soapbox; here's why he got fired from that other job. At least it doesn't involve signing your co-workers up for a dating service. [Pranay Gupte]
• And back to Madonna again, whose next reinvention will be in the form of Angelina Jolie. [Time]
• OMG CRISIS HEAT CLOSES TRADER JOE'S NO THAI LIME & CHILI PEANUTS FUUUUUCK! [Curbed]
• Mel Gibson provides the perfect opportunity to get wasted on company time as a part of an "investigation." A round of tequila shots in the name of journalism, please! [TVNewser]
• Just another tea party bay-by, two doped-out preppies going cray-zy. [You Tube]
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'NYer' Softball Write-up Just Too Precious For Us To Ignore
One of the vows we took when coming aboard the good ship Gawker was to drastically reduce the coverage of media softball games: Frankly, we couldn't give a shit about a bunch of folks who all went to the same six schools tossing spherical objects around Central Park, and, really, we felt bad about taking material that should rightfully belong to Deadspin. This morning, however, we were forwarded Matt Dellinger's coverage of the recent New Yorker/Harper's outing, and, well, it's just so adorable that we have to share it with you. See, Matt wrote it up Harper's Index Style, which, if not necessarily comedy gold, is certainly comedy silver. After the jump, see what Conde Nast employees do instead of fixing up their website. More »
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Media Softball: Tom Hanks Waves Foam Finger for 'Vanity Fair' Victory
While the rest of the country spent most of last week dressing their Roman-Candle wounds, the Vanity Fair softball team was making history on the diamond, schooling the world-renowned High Times Bonghitters, 8-5. The stoners took an early lead in the game, but it didn't take long for the Veefers to exact their vengeance for May's 13-4 loss to the Bonghitters. More »
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Media Softball: Battle of Jellinek; Felix Dennis to Wear Cheerleader Skirt
There's a major showdown brewing for tonight: Dennis Publishing brothers Maxim and Stuff will take to the softball field for a fierce battle of Axe Body Wash-scented supremacy. The game takes on a new relevance, however, with the recent defection of former Stuff EIC Jimmy Jellinek to the top of Maxim's masthead, taking with him three former Stuff staffers. Thus the game ensures to be nothing more than a violent grudge match. The question, however, is not whether or not Stuff can win back its pride or if Maxim will smack them into submission — it's whether or not Jellinek will play. As we understand it, his editorial skills may be an asset, but Jellinek's athletic prowess helps no team.
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Media Softball: CollegeHumor Out-Lads 'Maxim'
In a stunningly average display of athletic prowess and a minimal-at-best understanding of slow-pitch softball, the boys (and solitary girl) of CollegeHumor.com held off a furious last-licks rally by Maxim to defeat the mag, 15-13. More »
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Media Softball: Gawker Media Lets 'WSJ' Win
Obviously, we love summer softball. We love it only slightly less when it requires that we be at Central Park at 11 AM, as we were on Saturday, to play the disturbingly nice kids from the Wall Street Journal. More »
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Media Softball: 'VF' Beats Air America, Invents Witty, Alliterative Nicknames
More mopping up this morning of last week's softball. Vanity Fair filed a report late yesterday on its Thursday-night drubbing of the Air America team — dubbed by the VF wits the "Pugnacious Progressives," "Blue-State Broadcasters," "Syndicated Seditionists," and "Left Dialers." Valiantly playing on the face of an impending deluge, VF and Air America held on reach the middle of the fourth, when the game ended in a 9-4 VF win. So how could it take from Thursday night till Monday afternoon to write up three and a half innings? The nicknames, clearly. More »
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Media Softball: Bonghitters Keep Streak Alive, Mop Up WNYC
In all the excitement Friday about Richard Johnson and Andy Pemberton and Leon Freilich's impending vacation, we somehow missed an important report in our inbox: More »
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Media Softball: Now With Long-Lead Production Sked
One wouldn't accuse the Vanity Fair softball team of being prompt with its postgame reports — they work at a monthly, after all, and you know the flexible relationship those kinds of people have with deadlines — but you've got to give them some credit: They're now posting reports on the public VF site, and they've even got pictures. In the Veefers' Rashomonic look at last week's tilt against High Times, the Bonghitters still win but the prose is more flowery. More »
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Media Softball: 'BizWeek' Is Better Than 'WSJ'
We missed this Friday because our email wasn't working quite right. (Today our web browser isn't working quite right. Fun!) But we know you don't want to be left behind on any details of media-softball season, so we must pass on news, even if a touch belatedly, that BusinessWeek pulled out a come-from-behind 9-8 victory over their rivals at The Wall Street Journal last week. So now you know who is clearly the superior source for business news. More »
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Media Softball: Bonghitters Bogart the Veefers
The High Times softball team continues to steamroll its way through the media competition, pulling out a 13-4 win over the Vanity Fair squad last night. Editor-at-large Steve Bloom has a wrapup of the game, but there's no mention of VF's sartorial choices. We presume Graydon's kids wore tartan-plaid uniforms, and we further presume they looked spectacular. More »
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